ANTH 2050 EXAM 3
10/10/16
Agriculture: Whats the Point?
Where
Is important
Not every area has the same geographic or climatic parameters
When
How far after the ice age do we see these
How far after agriculture do we see complex societies
What
Wha

ANTH 2050 Lecture 3
01/22/2015
Missing link
Eugene Dubois (1848-1940)
A. afarensis: first member of homo family
Walking upright came before large brain development
Pitdown Hoax: skull of a human and jaw of ape
Fossil records very scant between 10-4 my

ANTH 2050
01/27/2015
Meaning of stone tools
Belief that stone tools define humanity, but chimps also produce
and use tools
o Hammerstone
o Sticks to fish termites
o Leaves to get water
Are humans different because they use more elaborate tools?
Tools a

8/22/16
Types of archaeology
Historic
Plantational for example
Classical
Roman and Greek
Ethnoarchaeology
Modern people
Modern descendants to learn about the past cultures
Archaeobiology
Past plant remains
To see trade, monetary value, if it is

Stonehenge Notes
-Stonehenge:
-First documented in 17th century (John Aubrey)
-False Beliefs: Celtic priests (druids), Romans
-Excavated in 1950s
-World Heritage site since 1986
-Neolithic site
-The stone there has been carved, grinded and put on top of o

The Neanderthals
-Humans overlap in time with Neanderthals. At some point we interacted with them
and they eventually disappeared
-They lived in Tundra like environments and hunted big animals. 99% of their diet
was meat
-Lecture Outline:
-Research on Nea

World Archaeology 2050
Final Exam Review
The evolution from humans to great apes goes from the Orangutan 12-15 million years
ago, to the Gorilla 6-8 million years ago, to the Human 4-6 million years ago, and then to
the Chimpanzees in present day.
Humans

Chapter1:TheScienceofArcheology
(The picture of the body was preserved because it was found with no oxygen)
Outline:
Overview of archeology
What are the goals of archeology?
What do archaeologists want to learn?
What constitutes want to learn?
What consti

EXAMTWO
MOVIE: Americas Stone Age Explorers
40,000 years ago humans moved out of Africa
to Europe, Asia, etc.
First Clue in America
Clovis New Mexico
Spear head found near the skeleton of a Mammoth
In a dried lake in 1933
13,500 years old *
the spear head

Exam 3 Material
Mesopotamia and the Sumerians
Outline:
Mesopotamia: environment and geography
Origins of Sumerians: unbaid period and before
The Sumerians: Uruk period, Early Dynastic period
Old World Cradles of Civilization
o Arid/semi-arid river va

Lecture Notes
Colonial Williamsburg
Plantation settled in 1619- Martin's Hundred? (Plantation)
An Indian massacre in March of 1622, 72 people were killed
Archaeological survey of the plantations' 500 acres
o Were uncovering the remains of buildings that h

The Origin of the Species Notes
Natural Selection
o Charles Darwin
o Alfred Wallace
We are classified using taxonomy
o Mammals because we are warm blooded and breast feed
o Primates because we have grasping hands, etc
o We are a member of the family homin

Archaeology: The Basics Notes
Archaeology- the study of the past through material culture
Material culture- the things that people interact with, modify, create, and use in daily life
The past is important
People may eradicate material culture from the pa